Advice

Gov. Mitt Romney outlined a defense policy that would add 100,000 active-duty troops, among other increases in the military. The Republican Party should make the case to African Americans that the future of the United States’ defense posture has significant pocketbook implications for them and for all Americans.

Now, I've heard a lot of rationalizations for ever-increasing military spending but this is a new one.

Oh, and the declaration that "the future of the United States’ defense posture has significant pocketbook implications for them and for all Americans" is frighteningly true, but in a way that Ms. Skinner fails to understand.